 | Biography
Professor Jan Borén, MD, PhD (born 1963) is currently Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University and Director of the Wallenberg Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research.
His main interest has been to study the role of apoB-containing lipoproteins in normal and disturbed lipid physiology and to understand the molecular mechanism by which the apoB-containing lipoproteins exert its effect on the arterial wall.
Prof. Borén’s outstanding achievements have been recognised by several honours and awards including Irvine H. Page Atherosclerosis Research Awards for Young Investigators (AHA, 1997) and Göran Gustafsson’s Prize in Medicine from the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (2004). He has been actively involved in activities of EAS and IAS, including the IAS meetings in Stockholm 2000 and Osaka 2003, and the EAS meetings in Seville 2004 and Prague 2005. He is currently a member of the program committee for the 76th EAS congress in Helsinki 2007 and involved in the "Speakers bureau" for IAS - European Federation. |
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